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Steven Pinker Dialogue

The Munk Debates Podcast

CHAPTER

Is Rationality the Ability to Pursue Goals?

Rationality isn't something that is embedded just in the mind of the actor. You see rationality expressing itself in community, in institutions. It in effect, has a kind of normative context. To attain rationality at the level of society its not just a question of having smart people or informed people but we have to abide by rules of game that allow the truth to emerge.

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